What is Next-gen Policy
Manager Proxy?

Note: Next-gen proxy is a feature that continues to evolve and is subject to further improvements.

Next-gen proxy is a role of Policy Manager Server, in which it proxies certain requests to Master Server while serving BackWeb and software updates locally. This way the most heavyweight traffic is offloaded from the Master, allowing for some level of optimization of the costly and high latency traffic towards Master Server.

Secure connections are used both between hosts/proxy and proxy/master Server. For that to function proxy nodes certificates should be pre-configured.